Arcadia

Although known since antiquity, interest in the representation of grazing animals, so typical of European landscapes, reemerged in the Renaissance period and at a later stage, as an individualized theme, with the Dutch masters of the seventeenth century before becoming a staple throughout Europe. Represented in the sole company of landscapes or associated with human figures – the male and female shepherds who accompany them – this bucolic theme renewed itself and acquired new meanings and graphic expressions throughout the ages.

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